Lamp.



UNITED STATES Patented June 16, 1.903.

EDGAR P. BROWN, OF COTTONWOOD FALLS, KANSAS.

LAM P SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,27 5, dated June 1 6, 1903. Application filed July 10,1902, Serial No. 115,029. (No mo To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR P. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Octtonwood Falls,inthe countyof Chase and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Lamp, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of lamps which are fed from hydrocarbon oil vaporized by the heat of the lamp and a mixture of vapor and air fed to the burner.

The invention lies in certain novel features in the construction of the vaporizer or that part of the device by which the heat is applied to the oil to transform it into gas and in cer-, tain minor features, as will hereinafter appear.

This specification is an exact description of one example of my invention, while the claims define the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a section of the vaporizer on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the vaporizer.

a indicates the lamp proper, which in itself may be of any desired form. This lamp is at tached to a pipe I), which extends down one side of the lamp to the bottom thereof, and to r a pipe or rod 0, which is locatedat the opposite side of ,the lamp a. The pipe b is connected with a rod or pipe d, and the rod or pipe 0 is connected with a pipe e, these parts (1 and 6 extending upward parallel with each other and being joined to a pipe f, which reachesdown from an oil-reservoir g. The rods or pipes d and c are closed and the pipe 6 communicates with the pipe f,while the pipe I) communicates with the lamp a. The upper end of the pipe I) has a mixing-nozzle b in communication therewith, this nozzle being horizontally disposed, and directly opposite the nozzle 1) is placed the discharge-nipple h of the vaporizer. The vaporizer comprises a horizontally-flattened tube h, at the dischargeend of which is a nozzle 7L2, 011 which the nipple 7b is screwed or otherwise fastened. The

gas is generated in the flattened tube h and is discharged through the nipple h into the mixing-nozzle b. The tube h of the vaporizer communicates with a tube 71 which islower end of the pipe e is a valve or cock 1',

which controls communication between the tube h? and the pipe e.

i kindioates a deflector forthe hot gases rising from the lamp.

In the operation of the invention the oil from the tank 9 flows through the pipes f and c, and when the cook i is opened the oil passes through a mass Z of fibrous material placed in the pipe h, this fibrous material serving to break the oil up or atomize it. The divided or atomized oil then passes into the horizontally-flattened tube h, constituting the vaporizer proper. When the operation of the lamp is started, the vaporizer may be heated by any desired meansfor example, by a match held under the tube h. The gas thus generated passes through the nipple h and into the mixing-nozzle 1), drawing with it a quantity of air, the mixture passing down through the pipe Z) to the lamp a, where it is ignited and burned in the usual manner. The heat from the lamp continues the high temperature of the vaporizer, and therefore c011- tinues the production of the gas or vapor. In this connection it is pointed out that the parts (Z and c serve merely as frame part-s, while the parts 6 and I) serve as frame parts and also as tubular conductors.

It will be observed that by constructing the vaporizing or generating tube in the form shown it is rendered more susceptible to the heat from the match and the thorough vaporization of the oil necessarily follows. This is due to the great amount of heat-conducting surface which the flattened tube exposes.

Various changes in the form and details of my invention may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of my invention. Hence I consider myself entitled to all forms of the invention as may lie within the intent of my claims. a

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A vaporizer for oilburners, having a vaporizing-tube, comprising two sections, one of which is substantially round and the other flattened to provide an interior of large area but of slight depth, a filling of fibrous material in the round section, a nozzle projecting from the discharge end of the flattened section, and a nipple fastened to the nozzle, from which nipple the oil is discharged.

2. Avaporizer for oil-burners havingavaporizing-tnbe, comprizing two sections, one of which is flattened to provide an interior of large area but of relatively slight depth, a means in the other section of the vaporizingtube for dividing the oil into fine particles, and means at the end of the flattened section for facilitating the discharge of the vapor generated therein. 7

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDGAR P. BROWN. Witnesses:

LoUIs W. HILLERT, J OHN E. BELL. 

